Seattle hosted the baseball All-Star Game a few weeks ago, so the city, of course, cleared all the bum encampments within parking distance of the…
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When I was a young boy it was not necessary to pay any money to women. Later I paid money to a few women to…
For music lovers possessed of even a dollop of reason September was a grim month as paeans to George Gershwin crescendoed toward mega-sforzando on the…
Selma sat in a corner of the big couch in her parents’ living room, hands folded neatly in her lap. Her father stood in front…
I was riding a city bus to the diner for breakfast, and on the way, I glanced out the window and noticed a bum sprawled…
Late on a sun-baked October afternoon in 1995, an attractive, 60-ish woman named Jodine Lesieur drove home after a long day cutting hair in her…
And then there’s Bali, a name of guaranteed glamour, known to all. Before the Second World War, I had heard of incomparable Bali from aristocrats…
After three weeks on the road, 3,000+ miles by rail on AMTRAK and 4,996 driven in a rental car what did we learn wandering around…
It’s a hot quiet weekday morning in Falls City, Oregon, which is more of a town than a city, at least by the standards of…
San Francisco, to me, is like a house of cards: postcards in glowing colors stacked against the hills that march from the Bay on one…
What does Barbie sound like? The original doll’s blonde hair, pointed toes and pointed breasts define her look, but her voice was, until the sing-song-then-sadistic…